[slim] Re: No genre for 80 albums

2006-10-11 Thread extenso
A complete rescan again did the trick! It did not in 6.5.0. Now for making all playlists work... -- extenso extenso's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4858 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Looking for Good Info on Album Art Downloading

2006-10-11 Thread NigelMSB
Pale Blue Ego;144979 Wrote: I really wish FLAC had standard support for embedded art.http://flac.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/flac/flac/doc/html/changelog.html New PICTURE metadata block for storing things like cover art, new --picture option to flac and --import-picture option to metaflac

Re: [slim] options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Herger
If you use a live CD you can play with Linux without doing anything to the hard disk. It will be slower than a real install, but that is usually a worthwhile tradeoff. There is a Live CD with Slimserver, you can load it and go. Something like DSL-N would work well on an old box, and I think

[slim] 1e99 songs in database

2006-10-11 Thread blader_se
Obviously I don't have that many, but Slimserver insists in reporting that I have 1e99 songs. Doing a rescan did not fix this. Can I reset this number of songs? I did not found anything about this in the forum, and running 6.3.1 on a FSG-3 (Arm) with default SQLite. No plugins added yet, but

Re: [slim] Re: Looking for Good Info on Album Art Downloading

2006-10-11 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], NigelMSB[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pale Blue Ego;144979 Wrote: I really wish FLAC had standard support for embedded art.http://flac.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/flac/flac/doc/html/changelog.html New PICTURE metadata block for storing things

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis
This thread is about the /Cache/FileCache folder only - thats the cache we are all referring to. With SlimServer 6.3 I had a fully working SlimServer / SoftSqueeze set up and was looking to invest in a 5-room SqueezeBox configuration (though i have also raised a query about whether there will be

[slim] For Sale Side Kick 3 For Just ...........................$150usd

2006-10-11 Thread mobiles
For Sale : Brand New Unlocked Cellphones,Ipods,Laptops,Game Consoles (Factory Sealed/warranty) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Telecomms... Dear Sir/Ma We are a electronics, telecomms / computer trading company with the varying electrical items available in stock for sale.Below is a well eleudidated list of

[slim] For Sale Sony Psp ...................................$135usd

2006-10-11 Thread mobiles
For Sale : Brand New Unlocked Cellphones,Ipods,Laptops,Game Consoles (Factory Sealed/warranty) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Telecomms... Dear Sir/Ma We are a electronics, telecomms / computer trading company with the varying

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis
I totally deleted my install directory and installed SlimServer_6.5_v2006-10-11.exe just now. It ran OK (though oddly its attempt to run after install failed - i had to manually start it). 10 mins later the cache is 92MB and growing rapidly... -- rbdavis

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis
Back up to 400+MB now... -- rbdavis rbdavis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7751 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105

[slim] Re: 1e99 songs in database

2006-10-11 Thread bpa
Have you tried the Clear library and rescan everything option in the Server Settings/Rescan library section - it is an option in the drop down box. -- bpa bpa's Profile:

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis
And back to SlimServer 6.3 and i have an immediately working system again... Seems mysql might be spoiling things for the rest of the class... -- rbdavis rbdavis's Profile:

Re: [slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Herger
Seems mysql might be spoiling things for the rest of the class... MySQL has nothing to do with the FileCache. -- Michael - http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview,

[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy
I don't like the idea of making adjustments to one program because another program has messed up the data the program works with. Slimserver doesn't give priority to the album artist for non-compilation albums. What you're seeing is an unexpected behaviour due to the messed up information in your

RE: [slim] FreeBSD port

2006-10-11 Thread TJ Angstman
Brooks, First, I want to say thanks for maintaining the freebsd port. I installed 6.3.1 without a hitch. I am having problems with my upgrade to 6.5. I deinstalled 6.3.1 (/usr/ports/audio/slimserver make deinstall). I deinstalled mysql (same, make deinstall). I have wiped the

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage
Just to kick a few more ideas around: I have been monitoring a particularly troublesome stream, which started stuttering after I loaded 6.5.1 and Softsqueeze 3.x.x. Now running SS 3.2.1 but effect is the same. (Timing could be coincidence tho') The stream runs at 192Kb/s - Love Channel on

[slim] Re: Now Playing button...

2006-10-11 Thread MillmoorRon
Michael Herger;145110 Wrote: It's called Customize playlist display - better suggestions are welcome :-) I can't find that! Which page is this setting on? -- MillmoorRon MillmoorRon's Profile:

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread bpa
When monitoring did you see if any of the stream (video especially) are using QoS measures such as DiffServ ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread:

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage
Can't say my monitoring tools only check bit rates. How could I check? Further measurements using my PDA to play back the stream via ActiveSync thro' my PC is stutterless! -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version:

[slim] Re: iTunes7, SS6.5, Volume Adjustment

2006-10-11 Thread barcar
Hmm - I've checked the latest iTunes SDK and that's the only Volume related value they've documented. If you can post a snippet of the Itunes XML file for affected files I'm happy to look again. Alternatively there's the worst case option to delete your iTunes database and reimport all your

Re: [slim] Re: Now Playing button...

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Herger
It's called Customize playlist display - better suggestions are welcome I can't find that! Which page is this setting on? Be sure you've enabled the Music Information Screen plugin (Server Settings - Plugins - you might have to restart Slimserver after installation). Then go to Player

[slim] Re: iTunes7, SS6.5, Volume Adjustment

2006-10-11 Thread barcar
Gildahl;145156 Wrote: Unfortunately, when I run the second script, it only clears out the manual volume adjustments set by the slider bar. When I reimport, the decibel adjustments apparently made by the sound check action are still there. I've checked in the SlimServer code - it looks like

[slim] More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread wullsy
I can only see one setting for file location. Is it possible to have more than one - I have two separate NAS drives, and I'd like to point at both, but I can't see an easy way to do it. I would imagine that it's possible as I guess the slimserver database stores a pointer to the file. cheers,

[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread nicketynick
MeSue;145199 Wrote: The Macsense HomePod has a USB port so you can connect an external drive. http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/ I bought one in early 2005, and it was horrible so I returned it and got the Squeezebox. Never used it with an external drive while I had it, and it looks

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread andyg
If you really do have 100s of GB's in your FileCache directory, the first time you run a build of 6.5 with the cache cleanup code, it will take a long time for it to clean out the cache. Just let it run. For more detailed info you can run slim.exe --d_server from the command line. -- andyg

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread bpa
It's been a while since I dealt with QoS and I'm not sure if it is used generally but XP implemented it. I don't know of specific tools just general ones like Ethereal. Perhaps if you disabled QoS in the XP network interface it would be interesting to see if it makes a difference to Video

[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread Kyle
nicketynick;145305 Wrote: Interesting bit of kit, in that it does provide the portability Kyle is looking for - but it doesn't appear to support FLAC currently.. It also is wireless, which I don't want to pay for because I don't need it. Is there something simpler that is wired-only? It

Re: [slim] More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread Michael Herger
I can only see one setting for file location. Is it possible to have more than one - I have two separate NAS drives, and I'd like to point at both, but I can't see an easy way to do it. to point is the keyword: you can put shortcuts from one to the other in the main folder. This will be

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread atlslim
Andy, Noticed quite a few recent check-ins in svn re: rebuffering streams. What differences in player behavior should we be looking for at this time? Also, would the changes impact player performance when a plugin (SuperDateTime) makes async_http call while playing a remote stream? Thanks.

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage
QoS was disabled, but I tried with it on and off with no noticeable difference in results. This particular stream is marginal as my measurements give it an average bit rate of less than 192K - nominally 185K with peaks and troughs of 201K and 134K. The interesting thing is that SB3 copes well

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread andyg
atlslim;145329 Wrote: Andy, Noticed quite a few recent check-ins in svn re: rebuffering streams. What differences in player behavior should we be looking for at this time? Also, would the changes impact player performance when a plugin (SuperDateTime) makes async_http call while playing

[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread Iznotgold
Of course you're right...and I am slowly going through my tagsbut a quick short-term fix would have been to be able to get SS to ignore the 'album artist' tags...I suspect I'm not alone in experiencing unexpected behaviour since upgrading to 6.5 I'm still not sure why SS gives priority to

[slim] Wishlist: wall pack SB

2006-10-11 Thread hirsp1
I'm an architect w/ a couple of SB3. The one thing that would be really cool...is if SB could be made in a form factor that would fit in a standard duplex switch box w/ a switchplate (and a nifty hotswap bay). It looks like it would almost fit in a quad-outlet box as it's designed now. Pair it

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage
Andy New buffer management works OK on SB3, but not on SSq 3.2.1, is that how it should be? -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version: 6.5.1 - 10147, Alien 1.06

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread andyg
Softsqueeze can't benefit from the rebuffering code, it doesn't report buffer status in the same way. I'm sure this will get fixed in a future Softsqueeze version. -- andyg andyg's Profile:

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage
Thought that might be the case. Noticed that on start of (my marginal test) stream, SB3 reads about 3% then rapidly depletes to 0% and rebuffers to about 5% and holds steady at that. Is the rebuffer different to the start-up buffer? -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version:

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread andyg
That's how it works in last night's build. I've made a few tweaks to it today, so it won't rebuffer unless the buffer is completely drained. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread Ramage
Thanks Andy -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version: 6.5.1 - 10147, Alien 1.06 Ramage's Profile:

[slim] CLI Button Play Command

2006-10-11 Thread Pantau
Hi I'm controlling my squeezebox from a automation tool installed on my PC. I'm using tcp cli commands (mac address button command) to control the squeezebox. Everything, exept of the button play command works as I want. If I choose an album with my remote control and press play the current

[slim] Re: stream keeps stuttering

2006-10-11 Thread andyg
I've also made another change: the Show Buffer Fullness display on remote streams where the bitrate is known will now display the number of seconds of audio in the buffer, instead of the percentage value which wasn't very useful. -- andyg

Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver 6.5 MySQL Requirement - Bad!

2006-10-11 Thread Jack Coates
On 10/10/06, smc2911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: neurophyre;145151 Wrote: Funny, I came here to make a post asking if there's any way to improve performance on low-end machines.Hitting play on a directory with a few hundred files in it (say I want to listen to a shuffle of all my alternative music,

[slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Nostromo
Yes, I have. Full wipe and scan. -- Nostromo Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28571

[slim] Re: Now Playing button...

2006-10-11 Thread MillmoorRon
Thanks, found it now. I'm sure that option wasn't there last time I looked! -- MillmoorRon MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413 View this thread:

[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread Iznotgold
Slimpy - thanks for sticking with me on this one. As previously said I'd had problems caused by 'Album Artist' tags being automatically updated by WMP (now disabled option)atributing tracks to compilation albums. I've subsequently gone through the collection removing this inaccurate data. But I

Re: [slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Jack Coates
On 10/11/06, Nostromo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have. Full wipe and scan.Then one of two things is happening -- either the files have two tags (they can have id3v1 and id3v2 tags at the same time), or SS is guessing based on folder structure and file name. I don't think it guesses genre tags

[slim] Re: options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread tucson5
All i have is time and i love tinkering and am geeky. Why is it better to set up the extra computer with slim server using linux as opposed to windows? i am asumming linux would run faster for the limited resources of the computer? thanks for the info. the ready install cd seems like a great

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread ModelCitizen
andyg;145320 Wrote: If you really do have 100s of GB's in your FileCache directory, the first time you run a build of 6.5 with the cache cleanup code, it will take a long time for it to clean out the cache. Just let it run. For more detailed info you can run slim.exe --d_server from the

[slim] Re: options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread hirsp1
I've got an old dual PII (233) box setup with Kubuntu and slimserver. The only thing I don't like about it is the extra power it draws. Otherwise, it serves 2 SB3s and a couple of squeezeboxes without problems (FLACs and MP3s). And I really love the Weathertime plug-in... It's worth it just

[slim] Re: options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread jeffluckett
I've got my SlimServer running on a headless Win2k3 box with an 800Mhz PIII and 512mb RAM. OS choice was simply because I got Win2K3 free with a MSDN subscription at work, and I'm familiar with it. I plan on doing a *nix (probably Ubuntu) setup eventually when I've got a little tinkering

[slim] Re: options setting up slim server

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Lanctot
tucson5;145390 Wrote: All i have is time and i love tinkering and am geeky. Why is it better to set up the extra computer with slim server using linux as opposed to windows? Well: - it's free - it's fun - you learn something - Linux is generally more stable than Windows. Note the term

[slim] Re: Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Lanctot
:-) That's cool! It's neat to try to see how many albums you have - some of them go by pretty fast. -- Mark Lanctot Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread:

[slim] Re: More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread wullsy
interesting! will try that out later tonight.. many thanks! -- wullsy wullsy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5251 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28570

[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread JJZolx
azinck3;145401 Wrote: Is there anything wrong with Andy's suggestion of an mp3 player with rockbox? It sounds like *precisely* what you're looking for. Most don't have USB ports to access an external hard drive, so you're limited to the space on the internal drive. -- JJZolx Jim

[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread JJZolx
Kyle;145179 Wrote: I would like a device that will play my FLAC files directly from my external hard drive though powered speakers. Is there a device that will allow me to eliminate the PC and LAN from the equation when I want my music portable? I think the best list of devices that

[slim] Re: Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread SlimPvC
absolutely brilliant. -- SlimPvC SlimPvC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28582

[slim] Random within a selected year

2006-10-11 Thread Flamingo
Is it possible to play random tracks from a selected year, or even a selected decade. I can't see any obvious way at the moment. I used to have this feature on another bit of software and I found it really handy. e.g. play a random mix of stuff I've bought this year. If not, 7.0 PLEASE?

[slim] Re: Random within a selected year

2006-10-11 Thread srasher
I have done this already. Really nice functionality especially for freaks like myself that like to randomly browse their music collection in any possible kind of way ;-) As I am currently not at home I cannot give you an exact specification but it is something like this: - Go to the players

[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread CatBus
JJZolx;145406 Wrote: Most don't have USB ports to access an external hard drive, so you're limited to the space on the internal drive. FWIW, the iAudio (Cowon) X5 seems to be a favorite of some of the Rockbox developers, so it's very likely to be a well-maintained port. It's also got a very

[slim] changing server IP on squeezebox remotely

2006-10-11 Thread bglad
hi, does anyone know a way to change the slimserver-ip address on a squeezebox... without using the remote control (which in this case is awol, and the slimserver is on a different network so auto-detection won't work)? In the tech info pages (html/docs/protocol.html) it appears that there

[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread Kyle
azinck3;145401 Wrote: Is there anything wrong with Andy's suggestion of an mp3 player with rockbox? It sounds like *precisely* what you're looking for. The problem is that the device would be limited by the size of its storage capacity and would require transferring music files to its

[slim] Re: Random within a selected year

2006-10-11 Thread Flamingo
DOH! Cheers Sebastian! It would be nice to have it hanging off the random menu somehow though. -- Flamingo Flamingo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7504 View this thread:

[slim] Playlist Problem in 6.5.0

2006-10-11 Thread socialxray
Upgraded to 6.5 and my playlists do not work anymore. When attempting to edit them via the web interface no tracks are displayed. When attempting to play them the web interface shows zero files, even though the files do contain information. I do have the following plugins installed:

[slim] Re: Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread ModelCitizen
I found it a bit bloody and unpleasant. Did remind me of iTunes though. MC -- ModelCitizen Now what? Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250 Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black boxes. Music catalog:

[slim] Re: Playlist Problem in 6.5.0

2006-10-11 Thread socialxray
I disabled DynamicPlaylist, SQLPlaylist, CustomerBrowse plugins but still no tracks in my playlists after restarting SlimServer. The link is there in the web interface but when clicking I get the playlist title but no tracks. -- socialxray

[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread funkstar
Kyle Wrote: Do they make what I'm looking for? By the sounds of it i don't think so :) -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Playlist Problem in 6.5.0

2006-10-11 Thread ceejay
(1) try the latest 6.5.1 nightly (2) do a full clear and rescan of the library (3) turn on the d_scan debug flag and have a look at the log output when you force a scan. If you have a large library you might want to give yourself a small test version so you can see what's happening more

[slim] Re: Tag info. displays Album Artists not Artist

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Weller
Hmm, no replies to this so either no-one knows what is causing the problem or no-one has a clue what I'm talking about! If it's the latter will someone please tell me so I can have another go as this is a really annoying problem. I suppose the alternative is to go back to 6.3 to see if the

[slim] Re: Do they make what I'm looking for?

2006-10-11 Thread tomsi42
Kyle;145416 Wrote: The problem is that the device would be limited by the size of its storage capacity and would require transferring music files to its internal drive. I've already got the music files on a hard drive, which is fairly portable. I'm just looking for a one-stop device that

[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread kweller
slimpy;145277 Wrote: I don't like the idea of making adjustments to one program because another program has messed up the data the program works with. Slimserver doesn't give priority to the album artist for non-compilation albums. What you're seeing is an unexpected behaviour due to the

[slim] Re: Tag info. displays Album Artists not Artist

2006-10-11 Thread kdf
well, I'll admit I'm not following you so far. however, if you wish to tackle it again, I'd recommend working with a 6.5.1 nightly build (or waiting a day or two for the 6.5.1 release). There were some tagging issues in 6.5.0 that could easily be causing confusion here. -kdf -- kdf

[slim] Re: Album cover battle

2006-10-11 Thread MillmoorRon
Some people have too much time on their hands. Good though! -- MillmoorRon MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413 View this thread:

[slim] Re: Internet Radio failure to parse error

2006-10-11 Thread kenj
I used to be able to sync my live365 stream across players using Slimserver 6.3.1. Upgrading to 6.5.1 broke this... I entered bug 4236 (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4326). Note, running the players individually and connecting to live365 streams fine - just does not work anymore

[slim] ~I want this to be first~ 6.5 alphabetizing prob.

2006-10-11 Thread Sam Lowry
Hi- After updating to 6.5, my special folders I named with punctuation, are now alphabatized based on the first letter after the punctuation. I want my special folders to be first. Is there a way to make this happen without naming them AA? Thanks, SL -- Sam Lowry

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread andyg
And have you run a 6.5.1 nightly build to have it clean out the cache? -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105

[slim] Sirius help

2006-10-11 Thread musicman
I have read all the threads and still cannot get my sirius feed to play any suggestions??? Need help please!! Thanks, Musicman -- musicman musicman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2940 View

[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy
kweller;145493 Wrote: My MP3s are correctly tagged - the artist field contains the name of the artist. The album artist field contains 'Various Artists' for compilations and the name of the recording artist for the rest. Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any

Re: [slim] I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread Kevin Weller
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Slimpy wrote: Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any use for that. I use that within my tagging software to group all compilation albums into the same folder tree. I don't understand why that would cause a problem to Slimserver as

Re: [slim] I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread Ben Sandee
On 10/11/06, Kevin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],Slimpy wrote: Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any use for that.I use that within my tagging software to group all compilation albumsinto the same folder tree.I don't understand why

[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy
Do you have List albums by band selected in Server settings - Behavior - Compilations? What happens if you change it to List albums by all artists for that album? -s. -- slimpy slimpy's Profile:

[slim] Re: I want SS to ignore TPE2 / Album Artist tags?

2006-10-11 Thread slimpy
Ben Sandee;145529 Wrote: I use this feature to categorize all soundtracks into a separate VA-type folder. I set the TPE2 to Film Soundtracks, which creates an artist with this name in the artist list. Fair enough. Do you see the same behaviour Kevin describes? -s. -- slimpy

[slim] Re: iTunes7, SS6.5, Volume Adjustment

2006-10-11 Thread Gildahl
I'll look into these things a bit more deeply, but here are a few observations I made. 1. When I look at the iTunes Music Library.xml file, the only tracks that have a volume adjustment tag are those for which I have made volume adjustments using the slider. This implies that the other (sound

[slim] Song Lyrics Link

2006-10-11 Thread earthbased
It would be great if Slim Server's song info had a link onto the internet for song lyrics... -- earthbased earthbased's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=334 View this thread:

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread rbdavis
I was running the nightly build that i mentioned. I started with a cache of 0 (i had deleted the entire directory) and it increased over about 30 mins to 500MB, leaving no space on the C drive. Are you saying it would gradually decrease again? Why can't i put this huge cache on my music drive,

[slim] Re: Song Lyrics Link

2006-10-11 Thread radish
http://slimlyrics.sourceforge.net/ -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28596

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread andyg
It's probably album art. Run the cachedump script to see. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105

[slim] Re: FreeBSD port

2006-10-11 Thread devin
TJ Angstman;145280 Wrote: I get the following error: compslim# /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl 061011 5:17:31 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read Security section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root! 061011 5:17:31 [ERROR] Aborting This isn't the correct way of

[slim] Re: Sirius help

2006-10-11 Thread atlslim
The plugin author monitors this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20621 You should turn on debugging for plugins and post the log entry output to that thread after attempting to connect to Sirius. from web ui -- Server settingsdebuggingd_plugins -- atlslim

[slim] Re: V6.5 huge FileCache

2006-10-11 Thread Ron F .
My first post on this forum... I noticed my regular computer running SlimServer began having a problem immediately after I installed 6.5 a few days ago. SlimServer runs for a while, and then dies. This did not occur with releases in the past. I came to this thread during my search of an answer

[slim] Re: Wishlist: wall pack SB

2006-10-11 Thread psb4me
i was thinking what would be perfect for a whole house system would be something modular, where you'd have a box with a tuner and maybe some audio inputs along with card slots for SB3 cards which would be the audio portion of a sb3, then have a wall controller that had the screen with some

RE: [slim] Re: FreeBSD port

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas J. Angstman
True, and I did this, but the output is silent as the script runs as a daemon. So, I manually ran the server and this is the issue I have after installing the port. In other words, running the rc.conf script just looks like this, with no server running: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slimserver.sh

[slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Nostromo
Then one of two things is happening -- either the files have two tags (they can have id3v1 and id3v2 tags at the same time), or SS is guessing based on folder structure and file name. I don't think it guesses genre tags though, so the two tags thing is most likely. MP3Tag can make it clear

[slim] Re: The tale of the tenacious tag

2006-10-11 Thread Nostromo
ModelCitizen;145394 Wrote: I do wonder if this works correctly all the time on XP. I had something similar. Slimserver appeared to hold on to a tag that had been removed from a file a while ago. Even after doing a full wipe and rescan SlimServer still included this tag. I only managed to get

[slim] Re: More than one location for files

2006-10-11 Thread vacaboca
I've been doing this all along on Windows - Up until very recently, I actually pointed to a folder that *only* contains shortcuts to my various collections and drives... never had a problem with it. -- vacaboca vacaboca's

[slim] Re: Mandriva 2007 and YAML::Syck

2006-10-11 Thread Lyndon
I am having the exact same problems with YAML::Syck. Starting the slimserver I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# ./slimserver start Starting SlimServer: The following modules failed to load: YAML::Syck To download and compile them, please run: